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Minify  v. t.  (past & past part. minified; pres. part. minifying)  
1.
To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.
2.
To degrade by speech or action.






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"Minify" Quotes from Famous Books



... and vision. Many of us—and I have felt myself amongst them—are quite provincial. We know our own neighborhoods and their people, and we grow slowly into knowledge of other sections and their people. Local caste, prejudice, interest, and bias warp us and minify our usefulness. Gen. LEE was not of this kind. There was no sectionalism in his caste, no bigotry in his creeds. His strong local attachments, natural to a true nature, neither dwarfed his opinions, soured his reflections, nor darkened his vision. His was a ripe mind and his a generous nature. ...
— Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) • Various



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